ESL educators Clemencia Donovan, right, and Michele Gatlin share a hug during the public unveiling of ESL to Go's teaching truck at the East-Centric Pavilion in East Nashville.

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Quint Qualls
| The Tennessean

Gatluakk Thach, a former refugee and child soldier in southern Sudan, can attest to the enormous struggle of getting to English classes.

On Saturday, World Refugee Day, Thach spoke at ESL to Go's public unveiling of its "classroom on wheels" designed to bring English classes to refugee communities throughout Nashville.

"The refugees who are coming (to the U.S.) have left their homes because they were destroyed, because they were persecuted," Thach said. "When I heard about the (mobile classroom), I was almost in tears." ...